Another excellent video by Peter Sinclair, the guy who proved former TV weatherman Anthony Watts knows as much about copyright laws as about climate science.
More “Climate Crock of the Week” videos here.
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Good one, is there more similar ones?
Coir Green, he has a channel on youtube, with lots! Perhaps a CD of this video could accompany the print version of Dr. Hansen’s paper, and a link be attached to the electronic publication?
It’s a shame that many people won’t spend the time to investigate the science behind the climate, and instead make rash assumptions based on moments of cold weather. This is a great video that explains what is happening on a global scale.
Off topic, but England’s The Mail is at it again. Their latest is at http://preview.tinyurl.com/yb8q2ty
Dr. Hansen and crew should include a link to this video or something like it in their new essay.
meh, moderation killed my response about the Himalayan glaciers (double post from back in July? who knows…JR, this is not going to go away, the denio-sphere is frothing with predatory lust for the next manufactured climategate) so in a sort of quiet vengefulness for this omission, I will attempt to post the following link, because it’s going to cause anyone who reads it a certain frisson of internal pain from gasping breathless laughter (in the best Monty Python/Oscar Wilde tradition):
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mark-steel/mark-steel-here-is-the-news-a-snowflake-has-fallen-in-high-wycombe-1865994.html
Peter Sinclair: You rock!
Deniers: You (are as smart as a) rock!
Peter, how did you film my dream of Rush, Neil and Anthony sailing off the edge of the world?
Ditto #2 Wit’s End and #5 Doug Bostom. Hey, isn’t this the type of venue/expertise that would suit Ross Gelbspan (and others)?
If he could put his videos on TV, we might could actually win the war on catastrophic climate change… This video would crush the deniers and the fossil fuel industry in no time! An excellent video!
#6 Wit’s End: Excellent article! It gave me a good laugh over my lunch break…
The video was sweet music to a member of the choir. Too bad it can’t be piped to every Ipod connected to every airhead.
Dr. Romm, thanks for posting this.
Wonderful video!
But I’m curious; if the past period of unusual cold proved global warming is a crock, what are the deniers saying about the current unusually warm weather? (NE US of course – center of the universe). I mean it MUST prove to them that global warming is real, right?
Richard Brenne: don’t insult the rocks!
Actually they are FAR SMARTER than the deniers!
(yes, when CO2 concentrations in rainwater go up, the following reaction occurs: CO2(ac) +H20(l) ⇌ H2CO3(ac); then:
2KAlSi3O8(s) + 2H2CO3(ac) + 9H2O(l) ⇌ Al2Si2O5(OH)4(s) + 4H4SiO4(ac) + 2K+(ac) + 2HCO3-(ac)
Translated into mineralogical terms:
Orthoclase (aluminosilicate feldspar) + carbonic acid + water ⇌ Kaolinite (a clay mineral) + silicic acid in solution + potassium and bicarbonate ions in solution
Reactions like this take the CO2 out of the atmosphere, so our smart rocks will eliminate all our CO2 in… less than a Million years!)
This is an Action that the Deniers WILL NOT DO even giving them INFINITE TIME!
“less than a Million years!”
that quick?
Yes, the reaction that finally eliminate CO2 from the atmosphere-hydrosphere and turning it into solid limestone is very slow. Climate Change by CO2 is almost IRREVERSIBLE in human history timescales(even if measured in millenia)!
In maybe 5 000 years most of CO2(i.e. roughly 70%) will have been absorbed by oceans and land vegetation. This is less slow, but still a lot of time!
Anyway, it was an ironic comment, about the Deniers intelligence!
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed hearing about “global cooling” and the like recently. I live in Perth, Western Australia, and it was 110F for the past two days, with 100F or so predicted for today and tomorrow and then easing to a positively frigid 90F on Thursday… Oh how I’ve wished for some global cooling.
I’ve always enjoyed your comments, humor and understanding of the science From Peru (13 and 15). Are you a geologist? What you’re saying about rocks absorbing CO2 is consistent with my understanding of maybe the second greatest positive feedback in the Snowball Earth effect (not accepted by all but I’m a huge Dan Shrag [Harvard Geologist] fan and think all the evidence he cites is compelling) after the albedo effect of all that ice.
Snowball Earth is the idea that maybe three or four times as far back as 2.2 billion years and as recently as 600 million years or so the Earth was completely covered in snow and ice. If this was the case, after the albedo effect the fact that ice didn’t allow exposed rocks to absorb as much CO2 from the atmosphere was a big positive feedback.
By the way, if you get a chance to hear Dan Shrag speak, in person or on-line, do it. His talk was the best of all the world-class talks we taped for the NASA-sponsored Global Climate Change class I taught with Toby Dittrich.
And as an aside, the hairlines of our wonderful host here, myself, Hansen, McKibben, Schneider and Shrag are all similar, so no one can accuse us of not doing at least our small part to increase albedo. I also wear a white ball cap, or in other words America’s favorite hairpiece.
From Peru, I know Peru’s glaciers are retreating even faster than my hairline (which my friend glaciologist Andrew Fountain likes to point out on my panels, “Has already receded”). While this (the glaciers, not so much my hairline) portends tragedy for Peru’s water future, has it helped Peruvians understanding and acceptance of climate change?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_G_-SdAN04